Selma Wassermann

Opening Minds

A Parents' Guide to Teaching for Thinking at Home

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Opening Minds is a wonderful resource full of materials for parents of elementary and middle school children who want to expand their learning at home. Though not a replacement for the standard curriculum of the grades, it provides parents with a variety of tools to promote and engage children's thinking outside the classroom.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 112
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. April 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 285g
• ISBN-13: 9781475859539
• ISBN-10: 1475859538
• Artikelnr.: 60407273

Autorenporträt

Selma Wassermann is professor emerita in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University and holder of the University Award for Teaching Excellence.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
1. Opening Minds: What's the Big Idea?
2. Getting Started
3. Thinking Operations: Those Higher Order Mental Tasks That Engage Minds
4. Introduction to the Thinking Activities: More Than You Wanted to Know
5. Preparing
6. Thinking Activities for Pre-and Emerging Readers
7. Thinking Activities for Middle Grade Students
8. Conclusion
Bibliography
About the Author